Imagining Methodism in eighteenth-century Britain : enthusiasm, belief, and the borders of the self /
"In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betray a thinly cloaked fascinati...
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Historicizing methodism
- The new man
- Words made flesh: Fanny Hill and the language of passion
- Actors and ghosts: Methodism in the theater of the real
- "'My Lord, my love:' the performance of public intimacy and the Methodist hymn
- A usable past: reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and the spiritual Quixote.
